TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The University of South Alabama men's tennis team fell to 5-2 in a dual match to Florida State at the Florida State Indoor Tennis Courts on Friday afternoon. 

Florida State came into the dual match as the No. 20 ranked tennis team in the country. The Jags pulled out two match wins in doubles and one match win in singles. 

DOUBLES
Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol defeated Aziz Dougaz and Alex Knaff 6-4. 
Louis Delcour and Sacha Modica fell to Sebastian Arcila and Lucas Pullain 6-1.
Santaiago Di Loreto and Sam Serrano defeated Enzo Le Seguillom and Bryn Nahrung 6-3.

SINGLES
Sacha Modica fell to Aziz Dougaz in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. 
Clement Marzol was defeated by Lucas Pullain 6-3, 4-6, 4-6. 
Loic Cloes was defeated by Alex Knaff, after taking the first set 7-5, Knaff won the final two 4-6, 4-6. 
Sam Serrano fell to Rana Roop Bhullar in straight sets, 3-6, 1-6. 
Making his South debut, Louis Delcour fell in straight sets to Enzo Le Seguillon, 2-6, 2-6. 
Max Laparaille got the lone singles win for the Jags, defeating Chase Wood in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. 

UP NEXT
South Alabama remains in Tallahassee to take on Florida A&M in two dual matches, both slated for Saturday, Jan. 19. The first match will begin at 10 a.m. follow by the second at 2 p.m. on the Rattlers Tennis Courts. 

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Nick Brochu
On the match: Great match today. So close. We played aggressive in doubles and really took it to them. Nothing better than having the doubles points come down to our no.1 doubles team who had such a good Fall! 

On singles: We showed a lot of energy going into singles. Being the first match of the season, I think we got tight at some positions. It's hard mentally when you lose serve after being up 40-15. We need to learn to close games better. 

On the opening weekend: But overall I'm happy with today. We competed so good against a top 25 team. We were up 1-0 and winning on 3 courts. So we were in position to win. We just need to relax in tough situations and close the set and match when we are up.  Today shows that we are very good and talented. It is exciting for the rest of the season.

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